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KENA UPANISHAD
The Kena Upanishad is a Vedic Sanskrit text classified as one of the primary Upanishads, embedded inside the last section of the Talavakara Brahmana of the Samaveda. It is listed as number two in the list of the 108 Upanishads of Hinduism.

Kena Upanishad is outstanding in its discussion of Brahman with attributes and without attributes, and for being a treatise on "purely conceptual knowledge". It asserts that the efficient cause of all the gods, symbolically envisioned as forces of nature, is Brahman. This Upanishad is also significant in asserting the idea of "Spiritual Man", "Self”, and “Atman” .
Kena in Sanskrit literally means, "by what, by whom, whence, how, why, from what cause". This root of Kena, in the sense of "by whom" or "from what cause", is found the inquisitive first verse of the Kena Upanishad.

Among the Upanishads it is one of the most analytical and metaphysical. Its purpose is to lead the mind from the gross to the subtle, from effect to cause. By a series of profound questions and answers, it seeks to locate the source of man's true being; and to expand his self-consciousness until it has become identical with God-Consciousness.

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